If I offered 100 pieces of gold I bet I could find at least one Hebrew speaker in Judaea in the year 1.
Would I find an English speaker if I then popped over to Britannia and offered gold? Or would they say "What the fuck is English?"
Would I find an English speaker if I then popped over to Britannia and offered gold? Or would they say "What the fuck is English?"
As far as English goes, obviously you wouldn't find any English speakers in ancient Britain, but you could find Saxons that spoke a language that English is descended from. There won't be much intelligibility, if any at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was equally unintelligible as ancient spoken Hebrew.
Not in britain you wouldn't, the saxons colonised britain in the 700-800AD range. Britons speaking Brythonic is what you'd find, probably not common Brythonic though, too early for that.